"Don't you hear anything, don't you hear the horrible voice that screams around the whole horizon, and which is usually called the silence?" Early in the morning of May 24, 1792, the poet Lenz was found dead in a Moscow street. The location of his grave is unknown. In his story "Lenz", the poet Georg Büchner gave an unsparing account of a homeless man - homeless in the world and in his own body. It is the story of the unhappy poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. The dramatized story is intercut with songs from Schubert's famous song cycle "Die schöne Müllerin", which describe a similar state of mind: The voice of the desperately wandering journeyman miller who seeks love, and finds death.
In Italian composer Alberto Mompellio's new arrangement, this music sounds like an echo of the linguistic forces of Büchner's Lenz. "But I, were I omnipotent, you see, if I were so, I could not bear the suffering, I would save, save..."
Text source and more information about this event at: http://theaterwillypraml.de/lenz-buechner/
